Samuel Barber News

SONiC - Sounds of a New Century - a brand new festival of 21st century music by more than 100 composers age 40 and under, will take over New York from Friday, October 14 through Saturday, October 22, 2011. Events will range from a daylong marathon to a DJ/VJ night, from a free symphony concert at the World Financial Center Winter Garden to collaborations between emerging choreographers and composers.

On Friday, July 29 at 8:00pm in the Spanish Courtyard, Caramoor presents a seemingly unlikely encounter between singer-songwriter and polymath Gabriel Kahane and cello virtuoso Alisa Weilerstein.

The Harris Theater for Music and Dance today announced its full Harris Theater Presents 2011-2012 season, offering Chicago audiences a ground-breaking collection of innovative, culturally diverse programming by the world's finest musicians and dance companies, as well as Harris' signature collaborations with Chicago's leading dance and music institutions.

MILLER THEATRE announces 2011-2012 23rd Season

Seventy opera coaches, vocalists, and musicians from across the globe will present two weeks of performances and masterclasses in Blacksburg as part of the Vocal Arts and Music Festival at Virginia Tech.

According to published reports, opera star and musical theatre veteran Giorgio Tozzi passed away on Monday, May 30. He was88 years old.

The New Amsterdam Singers, led by Music Director Clara Longstreth, will present a program of American works from 1978 to 2009 written in the Romantic style, and entitled With a Lily in Your Hand-the title of a recent piece by Eric Whitacre, which the chorus will perform.

On Friday, May 13 at 8 p.m. in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, the New York Choral Society (NYCS) Chamber Singers presents American Tapestry, a program that explores the rich heritage of American music.

Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, will lead the New York Philharmonic in Barber's Adagio for Strings and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, at the 20th Annual Free Memorial Day Concert, presented by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Monday, May 30, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. Seating is on a firstcome, first-served basis. The audio of the performance will be broadcast onto the adjacent Pulpit Green, weather permitting.

Kimmel Center President and CEO Anne Ewers and Vice President of Theatrical Presentations and Programming Matthew Wolf announced today the Kimmel Center's 10th Anniversary 2011/12 Season, which celebrates Philadelphia legends ?? music, theater and dance luminaries - who call Philadelphia home. The 2011/12 season includes a diversity of world, pop, jazz, dance and classical offerings featured within the Kimmel Center's four distinct series, and a variety of artistic collaborations and co-promotions, now available through subscription packages.

In a unique concert combining the talents of Music Institute of Chicago's 'Concerto Divas,' pianist Marta Aznavoorian, violinist Desirée Ruhstrat and cellist Wendy Warner perform the top three concertos of the 2010-11 season, as voted on by MIC audiences, Saturday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston. Accompanying the soloists will be an MIC orchestra of students, faculty, and alumni, conducted by James Setapen.

MILLER THEATRE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS concludes the 2010-11 season of its celebrated Composer Portraits series with JOAN TOWER

MILLER THEATRE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS concludes the 2010-11 season of its celebrated Composer Portraits series with JOAN TOWER

On Friday, May 13 at 8 p.m. in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, the New York Choral Society (NYCS) Chamber Singers presents American Tapestry, a program that explores the rich heritage of American music.

On Friday, May 13 at 8 p.m. in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, the New York Choral Society (NYCS) Chamber Singers presents American Tapestry, a program that explores the rich heritage of American music.

Following the immense success of the previous two festivals of jazz piano duos, which began in 2009 to celebrate the arrival of a new Steinway to Dean St and the launch of an ongoing relationship with Steinway, a stellar lineup of UK and international giants of jazz piano come to Dean St over four days to perform on 2 Steinways.

Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, will lead the New York Philharmonic in Barber's Adagio for Strings and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, at the 20th Annual Free Memorial Day Concert, presented by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Monday, May 30, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. Seating is on a firstcome, first-served basis. The audio of the performance will be broadcast onto the adjacent Pulpit Green, weather permitting.

Twenty-two years ago, long before television shows about choirs became all the rage and Walt Disney Concert Hall was merely a sketch on a napkin, one celebrated local institution, the Los Angeles Master Chorale (LAMC), made a commitment to mentor and train hundreds of young singers and their choir directors each year through the Los Angeles Master Chorale High School Choir Festival.

The New Amsterdam Singers, led by Music Director Clara Longstreth, will present a program of American works from 1978 to 2009 written in the Romantic style, and entitled With a Lily in Your Hand-the title of a recent piece by Eric Whitacre, which the chorus will perform.

Following the immense success of the previous two festivals of jazz piano duos, which began in 2009 to celebrate the arrival of a new Steinway to Dean St and the launch of an ongoing relationship with Steinway, a stellar lineup of UK and international giants of jazz piano come to Dean St over four days to perform on 2 Steinways.